The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
May 9th - June 7th
book by Rachel Sheinkin, music and lyrics by William Finn
conceived by Rebecca Feldman
additional material by Jay Reiss
directed by Timothy Near

This Tony® award-winning hit musical recently closed on Broadway after nearly 1,200 performances. The hilarious musical comedy celebrates the mania of competition as the funniest most lovable and sardonically nerdy contestants compete for the Spelling Bee title. Six wacky misfits with steely ambition strive to define themselves apart from their crazy families as they confront the pitfalls of puberty. The quirky mix of determined youngsters, including sheepish Leaf Coneybear, nasally challenged yet smug and confident William Barfee, and Olive Ostrovsky, a sweet, painfully shy girl whose absent mother is on a spiritual quest, discover themselves as they vie for selection in this witty and wise Broadway hit about coming of age on stage!

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• sj rep
• theatre
• theater
• Timothy Near
• Broadway
• Tony award
• nerds
• plays
• entertainment
• Molly Bell
• Mark Farrell
• Sophia Oda
• musical
• San Jose
• Bay Area
• stage

[DoggieAngel12345]

why did they stop playing it? what was it replaced w/?

[SJRepTheatre]

@DoggieAngel12345 San Jose Rep produces 6 main-stage shows a year, each run for 3-4 weeks. This was our last show in our 0809 season. If your interested in what's on stage now you can check out our website

[MrFreestuffhelp]

horrible

[SJRepTheatre]

What did you find to be horrible, MrFreestuffhelp?

[puddingonastick]

Leaf Coneybear meets Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat!

[moonlightsky31]

i can agree. I think there are some great parts, you can hear some inconsistancy in rona, some weird vowels and some people not supporting or belting when it's too high for them to belt... but i think the overall singing is good.

[sunaxtemari93]

I saw this yesterday, my school did it. I loved it~

[gypsiecat1]

My high school put on this play. I thought it was great but they didn't pronounciate very well.

[macintoshmaster909]

horrible

[amzingjkm97]

this i not good at all! i luv the song but i dont like how thy did it!

[paintcan4]

Yep, overall this is very bad. :(

[smilegrrrrrl]

The actress playing Marcy Park was on a few episodes of "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody."

[smilegrrrrrl]

@SJRepTheatre

Hopefully you meant if "you're" interested! Surely a theater with such a good reputation for quality can hire people who know their homophones! :)

[Cypresswhisker2]

I don't like your Logainne at all! But your Olive is adorable and compensates. It's the costuming of Logainne that throws me off. lol

[DoggieAngel12345]

why did they stop playing it? what was it replaced w/?